70-773 Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R Certification Exam

In the effort of expanding out the breadth of certification offerings, Microsoft has added the Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R (70-773) exam. This exam focuses on using Microsoft R Server and SQL R Services for analyzing Big Data.

Certification Target Audience

The focus on the Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R (70-773) exam is centered around Microsoft R Server and SQL R Services. The exam is designed to target candidates who are Data Scientists or Analysts who are processing and analyzing large data sets using R. This exam will test your familiarity with data structures, as well as basic programming concepts (such as control flow and scope), and your ability to write and debug R code functions.

Skills Measured

Here is a high level list of the skills and objectives measured on this exam:

Read and Explore Big Data

Read data with R Server

Summarize data

Visualize data

Process Big Data

Process data with rxDataStep

Perform complex transforms that use transform functions

Manage data sets

Process text using RML packages

Build Predictive Models with ScaleR

Estimate linear models

Build and use partitioning models

Generate predictions and residuals

Evaluate models and tuning parameters

Create additional models using RML packages

Use R Server in different environments

Use different compute contexts to run R Server effectively

Optimize tasks by using local compute contexts

Perform in-database analytics by using SQL Server

Implement analysis workflows in the Hadoop ecosystem and Spark

Deploy predictive models to SQL Server and Azure Machine Learning

When studying for this exam, you’ll certainly want to look at the official exam page from Microsoft for the full list of exam objectives. You’ll need to be sure to study every one of them that will be measured on the exam.

Training Materials

At the time of writing this summary of the 70-773 Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R, the exam is still in Beta as it was just recently published. This means there aren’t any exam guide books, or practice exams available yet. To study for this exam, you’ll need to rely mostly on the Microsoft documentation for the different technologies covered on this exam.

Happy studying!

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Posted by Chris Pietschmann

Chris is a 6-time Microsoft MVP and has nearly 20 years of experience building enterprise systems both in the cloud and on-premises. He is also a Certified Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect (both MCSD and MCSE), a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and self proclaimed Cloud Advocate. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.

I’m actually fond of R and using it since a while for data visualization . Can you tell me which type of documentation you have , I need a starting point and need to make sure I’m preparing for the exam and not for the entire tool